Past events

4.30pm Thursday 14 October Professor David Hopkins, 'George Crabbe's Peter Grimes and Benjamin Britten's'
4.30pm Thursday 28 October Kat Peddie (University of Kent), 'Voice and Vision in the Poetry of Robert Lowell' and Amy Evans (Kings College, London), 'Robert Duncan's Uterine Poetics'
1.00pm Wednesday 10 November Michael Malay, 'Poetry and Animal Life' and James Castell, 'Wordsworth and Animal Life'
4.30pm Thursday 25 November Dr John Lee, 'Kipling's "The Absent-Minded Beggar"'
5.00pm Thursday 9 December: Tucker-Cruse lecture - Professor Derek Pearsall, 'The cartographic imagination in the later Middle Ages'

4.30pm Thursday 20 January Dr Jane Griffiths, '"Playing the Dolt in Print": The Glossing of Nashe's Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Deuill'
5.00pm Thursday 3 February Dr Anthony Caleshu, (University of Plymouth), Writing South West lecture (title tbc)
4.30pm Thursday 17 February Dr Daniel Cook, 'Pope and Death'
4.30pm Thursday 3 March Professor Pamela King, 'The Poetics of English Religious Plays'
1.00pm Wednesday 16 March Catherine Redford, 'Which of the Last Men? Satirical approaches to the last man theme in Romantic literature' and Stacey McDowell, 'Keats and the Other Chameleon Poets'
5.00pm Thursday 17 March: Churchill lecture Professor Patricia Waugh (University of Durham), 'Thinking through fiction: mind in modernism' (Lecture Theatre 1)

4.30pm Thursday 12 May Professor Ad Putter and Dr Judith Jefferson, 'The Verse Forms of Middle English Romances'
4.30pm Thursday 26 May Dr Jane Wright (title tbc)
4.30pm Thursday 9 June Rachel Stenner on Troilus and Cressida (title tbc) and Patrick Ashby, 'Careful tutors: the manipulation of youth in The Tempest'

Wednesday 11 May Half-day conference: 'A Self-Conscious Voice' - An Exploration of Expatriation and Literature; Speaker: Dr Lindsey Moore
Tuesday 24 May One-day academic conference: 'The Seven Ages of Dylan'
Thursday 2 June Half-day colloquium: 'Romantic Afterlives: Poetry'

27 May 2010 Romantic Afterlives: Film & New Media (pdf 87Kb)
29 June - 1 July 2010
75 Years of Penguin Books: An International Multidisciplinary Conference
Victoria Rooms
A three day conference exploring all aspects of Penguin Books. Call for papers and delegate registration now open.

Thursday 22 October Piers Pennington (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
on Philip Larkin (title tbc)
4.30pm
Thursday 5 November Stuart Christie (Associate Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University)
‘E.M. Forster and the BBC’
4.30pm
Thursday 19 November Daniel Karlin (Professor, Sheffield)
(title tbc)
4.30pm
Thursday 3 December Jonathan McFadyen
on Latin Arthurian legend (title tbc)
4.30pm
Thursday 14 January The 2009/10 Tucker Cruse Lecture
Professor Karen O’Brien (Warwick)
‘Jane Austen’s Surplus People’
5.00pm
venue tbc
Wednesday 27 January Dr Charles Butler (UWE)
The Writing South West Seminar (title tbc)
1.00pm
11 February The 2009/10 Sir Winston Churchill Birthday Lecture
Dr Seamus Perry (Balliol, Oxford)
on Arnold and Clough (title tbc)
5.00pm
Venue tbc
Wednesday 24 February Joel Hawkes
on Mary Butts (title tbc)
1.00pm
Thursday 11 March Adam Hanna
on domestic space in modern Irish poetry (title tbc)
4.30pm
Thursday 29 April Laurence Publicover
on Shakespeare and the sea (title tbc)
4.30pm
Thursday 13 May Anne Baden-Daintree
on medieval mourning and masculine identity (title tbc)
4.30pm
Wednesday 26 May Catherine Redford and Stacey McDowell
Romanticism panel papers (titles tbc)
1pm

For more information, please contact Adam Hanna (adam.hanna@bristol.ac.uk) or John Lyon (j.m.lyon@bristol.ac.uk).

Seminars are also run via the Centre for Medieval Studies. Please see their website for a list of forthcoming seminars.

24 October 2009 Introducing Penguin: A Public Readers' Day
3/5 Woodland Road
A day of workshops, lectures and panel discussion for students and members of the public, focused on the history and output of Penguin Books.